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Researchers report irisin, a hormone released during physical exercise, may promote neurogenesis in the hippocampus. The study sheds new light on why exercise helps improve memory and could help to protect the brain agai...

This strange type of magnetism can form rapidly -- and disappear just as quickly.

A new study reports the female hormone cycle may explain why women are more prone to addiction and affected by triggers that lead to relapse.

Pets can get sick -- or, in rare cases, die -- from eating cannabis. Second-hand smoke can affect animals as well. Follow the "ABCs" of cannabis safety to protect your pets.

How I learned to stop worrying and rub aluminum into my armpits.

A new method developed by Northwestern Engineering's Manijeh Razeghi has greatly reduced a type of image distortion caused by the presence of spectral cross-talk between dual-band long-wavelength photodetectors.